Which Beast do you prefer? Kelsey Grammer's Classic Beast or Nicholas Hoult's Cat?

Brought this over from the other thread. Which of the two do you prefer?

For me, the guy up top is Beast. He's the Beast I grew up reading (in the 80s) and the Beast that we all love and remember from the show. While I'm sure today's teens probably don't remember the Classic version of the character, I still doubt they're more familiar with Cassaday's take on him.

Classic Beast emanated wisdom and amiability even with his monstruous physique and ferocious qualities. Vaughn's Beast just looks scary.

Off of looks, classic Beast. I think new Beast would look pretty good if he didn't have yellow cat eyes. Those are really distracting in that pic.

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Neither are perfect to me but the top pic is THE very best pic I've seen of Kelsey Grammer as Beast (some other pics are nowhere near as good) while the other is the only one I've seen of Nicholas Hoult's Beast. So really I'll wait till I've seen more of the new one before I can say anything definitively.

Edit: for the record I am a big fan of Classic Beast from the comics & much less so of Cat Beast. Also a massive fan of Kelsey Grammer as Beast. I just think the 'costume' they gave him looked like a human with blue skin, long blue hair & a long blue beard.

I've always hated Feline Beast. I hate the ilogical infantile reason why he was turned into a cat. It's wasn't only a bad idea it was poor writing, just plain bad storytelling. I think it's a shame that they are now bringing that horrible mistake into the movie-verse.
Of course I do agree with the comments about the makeup quality.
Even though Xmen3's Beast was more like the best liked blue ape form they makeup & FX did not have the attention to detail that they seem to have dedicated to this newer version.. I still hate the blue cat though

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For one, I love ape Beast and I love cat Beast. Yet I don't see how Kelsey looks like ape Beast, or how Hoult looks like cat Beast.

The poll should have simply asked which theatrical version of Beast do you prefer. And, in my honest opinion the make-up work done for First Class destroys the make-up work done in The Last Stand by a long shot.

For one, I love ape Beast and I love cat Beast. Yet I don't see how Kelsey looks like ape Beast, or how Hoult looks like cat Beast.

The poll should have simply asked which theatrical version of Beast do you prefer. And, in my honest opinion the make-up work done for First Class destroys the make-up work done in The Last Stand by a long shot.

To me Grammar was a perfect beast. I agree the makup could have used some improvement but he was so dead on the character to me that it didn't matter. There wasn't much to like about X3 but he was one of them. Its more how he came off on screen than how he looked.

I'm biased because I prefer ape-beast, and Grammar was very much how I always thought Beast should sound like, which was great. And unfair on Hoult because we haven't even heard him speak yet. I do like his human 'look', he looks both cool and nerdy if you know what I mean.

Beast has always been one of my favorite Marvel characters. So as far as which one do I prefer? It's tough to say but I'll need to see more of the FC performance before I can judge.

My only gripe with Beast in X3 that his genius intellect wasn't explored enough and we didn't see him in his natural element. I wanted to see him in a lab mixing chemicals, reading a novel, teaching a class, or making some updates to the Danger Room.

i'm more partial to the classic Beast because it's the Beast i grew up with back in the 90s (animated series, Jim Lee's work)

but the cat look is not bad. looks like the Beast from the Astonoshing X-Men

but in the end, it's all in the performance. one of the only good things about X3 was Kelsey Grammer. he gave an excellent performance and it's a shame he was not brought in for previous films. it was perfect casting IMO.

Kelsey Grammar is the perfect Beast in just voice alone and I thought he looked pretty fantastic in X3 but I'm really curious as to how they'll do Beast in this one. Just from the trailer alone it looks like he'll be a bit more scientific. As for the looks I gotta go with cat beast, just looks different and is pretty sweet.